Cover story April 2024
SAP Basis with Cloud ALM,
on-prem
and licenses.
Salzburg 2024: Hana and S/4 also need a robust SAP basis. The Customer Competence Center of SAP R/3 and Business Suite 7 is transforming itself with ALM, process mining and enterprise architects. The SAP Competence Center Summit in Salzburg is dedicated to this transformation process.
Cover story April 2026
Trends and investment 2026
The year 2026 is a critical turning point for the SAP community: SAP's visions meet the reality of existing customers. As the end of maintenance for the old ERP system approaches in 2027, the pressure for S/4 migrations will increase massively and shape the market for service providers.
Red Hat introduces OpenShift Virtualization Engine
January 27, 2025
New virtualization-centric approach provides a customized experience for managing virtual machines while offering a roadmap for application modernization
Minsait Receives Appian Europe's Growth Award
January 27, 2025
The digital company Minsait has been awarded this 2024 with multiple global recognitions in the technological sphere.
The SAP Man
January 27, 2025
Every January, the discussion about the "Davos Man" resumes. SAP is also seeking to play an important role at the WEF, so here we will begin a discourse on the Davos Man in general and SAP in particular.
E-world Energy & Water
January 21, 2025
Essen will be the meeting place for the energy industry from February 11 to 13, 2025. Exhibitors at E-World will showcase solutions for a climate-neutral future.
Small impact? AI Affects Others More
January 15, 2025
Austrian finance and insurance experts estimate that artificial intelligence will have a greater impact on others than on themselves.
Study on AI integration in DAX 40 companies
January 13, 2025
HTW Berlin has analyzed the integration of AI technologies in the DAX 40 companies.
Data Fabric
March 24, 2022
The SAP community not only wants an answer to the question of whether Hana and S/4 are still up to date, but also a consolidation of S/4 conversion tools. There are many good approaches, but it remains laborious and in part also not very efficient.
SolMan, ALM and BTS
March 17, 2022
The SolMan is dead, long live the SolMan! Many years ago, the SAP Solution Manager was born in the boardroom of Gerd Oswald. The idea was stringent and successful at the same time. Back then, the SAP world consisted of consolidating, harmonizing and orchestrating - and it was on-prem.
The CCC dilemma
March 10, 2022
Familiar patterns of behavior are reluctantly abandoned: A hit in the SAP community from the R/3 era is the Customer Competence Center.
E3 Roundtable on ERP Platforms, Data Streams, and E2E Workflows
Successful ERP, supply chain management, and CRM architectures are built on IT platforms. Data streaming and collaboration are essential to the orchestration of ERP systems. IT platforms are the new operating system for cloud computing. The E3 Roundtable will highlight the importance and strategy of platforms for a holistic IT infrastructure and ERP architecture. SAP customers will implement platform technologies for digital transformation. The E3 Roundtable will discuss the ERP architecture principle of platforms using Boomi's offering as an example.
Comments
May 10, 2023
Can AI also do ERP?
New projects show how artificial intelligence can be used to create added value. But can the creative use of AI to create texts and images also be transferred to the context of business software and processes?
May 8, 2023
All processes in harmony
Orchestrate with open source. Everything is going digital. Everything is being automated. But who keeps track? Which software do we trust to control the flow of all digital processes?
May 5, 2023
Consolidation and legacy assets
The change of personnel in the positions of Chief Financial Officer and Chairman of the Supervisory Board has obviously prompted SAP CEO Christian Klein to clean out and tidy up.
May 3, 2023
The trepidation of the retailers
Since the German Cash Register Security Ordinance (KassenSichV) came into force, it has caused anxious moments and triggered lively activity - not only, but especially - in the retail sector. No wonder, since the regulations are extremely complex.
SAP News
May 13, 2024
CBS integrates consulting firm EPSFlow
CBS Corporate Business Solutions, a consulting firm from Heidelberg, is expanding and strengthening its portfolio in the area of supply chain management and manufacturing with the Heidelberg-based consulting firm EPSFlow.
May 8, 2024
Christian Klein Is Here to Stay
The current SAP CEO Christian Klein's contract was extended for a further three years. He was also appointed as Chairman of the Executive Board.
May 8, 2024
Cognigy and Infinit.CX Announce Partnership
The collaboration enables the companies to create a personalized and effective customer experiences.
May 8, 2024
Tobias Braun New CFO at Detecon
The Supervisory Board of T-Systems has appointed Tobias Braun as Chief Financial Officer and member of the Management Board.
Business Management
January 29, 2020
Digitalization and Consulting 4.0
Digitalization does not stop at the consulting industry. Management and IT consultancies as well as auditing and tax consulting firms not only advise on digitization issues, but also have to face the challenges of digital transformation.
January 23, 2020
SAP and non-SAP system copying
More and more companies are saying goodbye to manual or manual creation of the necessary SAP system copies and are instead relying on specialized software tools tailored to their needs. This is also the case for the successful food and beverage producer Spitz.
January 8, 2020
Cyber attacks: TU Darmstadt relies on Virtual Forge
SAP security at the push of a button: This is the motto that the Technical University (TU) of Darmstadt is putting into practice with the analysis tools from Virtual Forge, which is now part of Onapsis.
January 6, 2020
Single Point of Truth
In four stages, "Zukunft ERP" merged the GMH Group's existing four separate ERP systems into a single SAP solution. The consolidation has streamlined processes and increased data transparency.
IT Management
February 27, 2020
SAP as the Central Component of Digital Transformation
Digitalization poses new challenges. To avoid pitfalls, companies need a structured approach. This is also true for S/4 Hana implementations as digital core, and a business transformation roadmap is indispensable for any migration.
February 21, 2020
Trend: Process Mining and Robotic Process Automation
As of now, the Process Analytics Factory's PAFnow process mining tool, which is integrated into Microsoft Power BI and Office 365, is available in the completely revised 2019.1 version.
February 3, 2020
The digitization accelerator
Cloud software from Nutanix on Fujitsu hardware as a hyperconvergent infrastructure solution can accelerate digitization projects, modernization as well as migration projects and also relieve IT budgets.
January 23, 2020
SAP and Azure Value Community
The credo of the open source innovator Suse: to support SAP customers with the same solutions and functions both on-premises and in the cloud. No more, but also no less. The close ties between Suse and Microsoft at SAP on Azure have special features.
Economy
January 30, 2018
Shared cloud future
Microsoft and SAP have unveiled integrated offerings that enable enterprise customers to migrate to the cloud efficiently and securely so they can focus on the digital transformation of their business.
January 30, 2018
Digital transformation needs clarity
When the CEOs of SAP and Microsoft unveiled the next stage of their collaboration, one could be surprised: they have been working together for 20 years. Developers have long since found a home at the other partner's sites.
January 30, 2018
Cooperation can bring advantages
SAP and Microsoft want to move closer together in the cloud business by jointly offering cloud services to companies in the future. This could bring more freedom for members of the German-speaking SAP user group.
January 29, 2018
General contractor for SAP intralogistics
Intralogistics system integrator Viastore and SAP logistics expert Prismat want to join forces to become a major SAP general contractor in intralogistics.
E3 book tip
Getting started with SAP S/4HANA
Get to know SAP S/4HANA using practical examples! In this book, Christian Drumm, Bernd Scheuermann and Stefan Weidner introduce you to the most important modules and business processes of SAP S/4HANA. You will get an overview of the applications for sales, purchasing, production, warehouse management, accounting and controlling. Many exercises, case studies and practical cases enable you to implement what you have learned directly in the system. Currently for the example company Global Bike 4.3.
The prerequisite for using the exercises, case studies and practical cases is access to an SAP system with Global Bike Client version 4.3. SAP UCC Magdeburg.
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